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Ruthie Blum

Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

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Senior Contributing Editor
Publishers beware: Banning books isn’t good for freedom (or business)
It’s interesting to note that such a petition didn’t circulate among the authors vying for Pulitzer Prizes during the administration of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Jan. 19, 2021
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Former Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
Shame on Arnold Schwarzenegger
While the naturalized American uses his Austrian background to give credence to his false likening of the Capitol Hill violence to Kristallnacht, he also seems not to know the meaning of the word “coup.”
Jan. 12, 2021
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An employee of the Palestinian Authority displaying money he withdrew from a bank in Gaza City on June 11, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Esther Horgen’s killer can count on Abbas
In the warped world of Palestinian terrorists, having a friend die of an illness in an Israeli jail is sufficient cause to slaughter an innocent woman jogging through the forest near her home.
Jan. 5, 2021
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Israel Police officers at a temporary checkpoint at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem on Dec. 28, 2020, during Israel’s third coronavirus lockdown. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Doctors against lockdowns
As the year winds down and a third near-standstill takes place, more than 100 Israeli medical experts took a welcome ax to conventional coronavirus wisdom.
Dec. 29, 2020
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U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from the press at a coronavirus update briefing at the White House, March 14, 2020. Credit: White House/Shealah Craighead.
Senior Contributing Editor
The upside of defeat
It’s much easier to be a critic than a champion, particularly where attitudes towards politicians are concerned.
Dec. 22, 2020
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The Reichstag building in Berlin, where the Bundestag meets. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Bundestag, BDS and ex-pat Israelis in Berlin
The School for Unlearning Zionism is one endeavor whose funding was cut thanks to a German parliamentary resolution.
Dec. 15, 2020
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Aryeh Schiff. Credit: Arad Municipality video/Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
The immoral inversion of victim and perpetrator
Arad resident Aryeh Schiff shot a man stealing his car. Though he promptly called police and paramedics, he is now facing manslaughter charges.
Dec. 8, 2020
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Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes addresses journalists on the foreign-policy priorities of the Obama administration, in particular a deal to hold Iran's nuclear program at bay, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: U.S. State Department.
Senior Contributing Editor
Fakhrizadeh’s welcome death enrages American ‘doves’
Caught between economic pressure and surgical strikes, the Iranian regime is in a panic. But U.S. diplomacy obsessives are waiting in the wings to resume appeasement.
Dec. 1, 2020
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The Jewish Voice for Peace ad for its panel discussion on anti-Semitism, scheduled for Dec. 15, 2020. Source: Facebook.
Senior Contributing Editor
Anti-Semites combating anti-Semitism: An Orwellian farce
“Anti-Israel” may be the new “pro-Israel,” but proponents of the bait-and-switch don’t seem to be camouflaging their Jew-hatred as well as they’d hoped.
Nov. 24, 2020
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A man walks with an Israeli flag in the neighborhood of Givat HaMatos in Jerusalem on Nov. 16, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The usual suspects against Jewish construction in Jerusalem
Nothing points to the legitimacy of housing units in Givat Hamatos better than the diatribes of Peace Now, the Palestinian Authority, the European Union and the United Nations.
Nov. 17, 2020
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a press conference on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s president shouldn’t obfuscate the particularity of anti-Semitism
Shame on Reuven Rivlin for marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht by taking a general stand against all forms of hatred.
Nov. 9, 2020
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A lawyer for the family of Walter Wallace, Jr. speaks to reporters. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
The killing of Walter Wallace Jr.
Most “men and women in blue,” many of whom are black, deserve praise, not scorn, for drawing their weapons.
Nov. 3, 2020
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